8th Playable Character Possible?! (Updating!)

[justin3009]

It can interact...the rest is a no.  It can walk and run if it's not the 1st person in the party or if you switch him out with another PC.  Fighting, no that's still buggd.  Techs, Mauron was working on loading up another set of techs so that's somewhat possible.

[teaflower]

Well, it's still awesome what all you've been able to do. Think about it! You and the team went from having like one or two world map sprites from a Gameshark for some guy in brown that really didn't do anything to having an 8th character that has a portrait, working sprites, interactions with other characters, and is actually pretty cool!

I couldn't do something like that.

Keep up the good work!

[Chocobo_Fan]

Teaflower really said it, AWESOME job, guys! This is coming along excellently! :D

This might not take years upon years to finish like I thought it would! We may have the full Schala project up and running in a few months if you guys keep up the good work! o_O

Seriously, awesome. *thumbs up* Loving how well this is coming out.

[justin3009]

- Equipment working for 8thy.  All female items are able to be equipped on her.  Except PrismSpecs, those didn't work quite right.

[mav]

By working, does that mean they add the intended effects as well? Like by wearing the Sun Shades, will all damage the character inflicts increase by 25%? Or that it can be equipped?

[justin3009]

The effects will work as well.

[justin3009]

Ugh, I was worried something might have happened.  The save menu's background tiles are completely effed up now if you change that.  Blargh.

[Mauron]

Can someone upload the latest version of the patch? My copy has been hacked to death, and the latest version was removed in the mass deletion of attachments.

[justin3009]

Yep, I'll edit my post when it's ready.

Edit: Patch is ready.  Another bug in the menu is that the save tiles in the save menu are screwy now since it uses the 8th chara's portrait.

[Mauron]

Another chunk of used data: 0EDC30-EDEDF - Character stats and techs.

I've started working on changing {CronoNick} to {Crono} in Ayla's speech. Up to location 010 is done.

[justin3009]

Ah.  Completely forgot about that tidbit.  Thanks for changing that.

[Mauron]

Here's the VRAM for the main menu screen. It looks like if we bump up the save portraits and character portraits, there will be enough room for the 8th one without issue.

Edit: Got the character portraits moved, although it's glitchy. Save portraits still need to be moved.

02FC90-2: 1F 80 02

Edit 2: Save portraits moved in VRAM.

02FC9F-A0: 00 1B

This leaves enough room in VRAM for the save menu portraits to load.

3FE55C-63: B4 B8 BC C0 C4 C8 CC B0

Modifies the loaded save portraits to match the new location.

02FC90-2: 1D 00 03

Final adjustment of menu portraits. Still doesn't have the proper image being loaded.

[justin3009]

Should I get the menu portraits straightened out and setup?

[Mauron]

If you have a clue on what to do, go ahead. I've been at this all day trying to get it to work, and so far I just have the save screen fixed.

[justin3009]

It doesn't seem that hard to fix.  All the portraits were bumped down two entire slots.  So just have to move everything again.  Or at least that's what I think it is.

Edit: Oh, now I see what you mean X_X